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Ryan Lange

@langeryan.bsky.social
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Media researcher interested in automated behaviors. I lift heavy things and put them down again. Sometimes I help someone learn something.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 15m
LLMs are parasitic upon human creativity & human labour. They disregard consent. A few software engineers & CEOs get paid, the authors of the extraordinary numbers of books stripmined for training data get nothing, & were not even asked if they wished their work to be used. It is unjustifiable.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 46m
“The New York Times downplayed Vance’s hateful rhetoric and even sought out a justification from a friendly pro-Republican source.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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New York Times cleans up Vance’s bigotry
The New York Times downplayed Vance’s hateful rhetoric.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 40m
It is telling that Healy is concerned with the trust of *sources*. This is the corruption of access journalism.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 37m
Naturally.
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Byron Donalds is pro–data centers. So is his stock portfolio.
The Republican candidate for Florida governor is bucking the trend of opposing these facilities.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 1h
The Republican nominee for NY21
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 1h
“You don’t have to root your imagination in the darkest fears, the rage, and the resentments of Americans.” Ta-Nehisi Coates joins global editorial director Mark Guiducci for this episode of Fair Game. Watch the full episode: vanityfair.visitlink.me/xUIS-1
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h
We are in a hostage situation with our billionaires. They've made it clear that their accumulation of wealth (and the attendant degradation of democracy) only works in one direction. If it moves even an inch the other way, they blow the whole thing up and inaugurate fascism. Completely untenable
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404 Media @404media.co · 5h
Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.
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Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month
Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 2h
This economy is broken for working people. The cost of everything is skyrocketing. Billionaires and CEOs are making record pay and bonuses while workers struggle to make ends meet. Workers make this country run. It shouldn’t be this hard to stay afloat.
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Wholesale inflation surged in September, keeping affordability in focus ahead of the midterms | CNN Business
US wholesale inflation jumped in September to its highest level in more than four years, marking the second hotter-than-expected inflation reading this week and adding to concerns about the economy ju...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h
Who could've seen this coming
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OpenAI, Meta caution US judiciary about risk of 'deepfake' evidence
Tech experts at OpenAI and Meta Platforms warned a federal judicial panel on Thursday that AI-generated "deepfakes" are becoming so sophisticated that it will become increasingly challenging to determ...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h
This is fantastic -- Mark is a hero of American journalism
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2h
Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h
Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs
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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2h
Everyone's a critic futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Agent Blamed for Deleting Entire Upcoming Season of TV Show
An AI agent reportedly deleted the entire final cut of the upcoming season of a Swedish reality competition show.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 5h
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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ITEP @itep.org · 13/10/2026
Shoe maker Steve Madden received $92 million in tariff refunds. After noting that it was “pleased overall with consumer acceptance of the price increases,” the company says it will use those tariff refunds to “pay down debt.” itep.org/trump-tariff...
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The Biggest Winners from Trump’s Tariff Refunds are Big Corporations
The Trump administration has been forced to pay out over $100 billion from illegal tariffs, and the biggest winners from these tariff refunds have been big corporations.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h
i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...
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How ‘Woke 1’ Radicalized the GOP
On May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h
AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.
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🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 4h
Oh, you don’t like AI cause isn’t ethical or cheap or safe? Well, have you considered that it’s supported by all the most annoying and evil people on earth?
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 6h
Nancy 10/14/26
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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 8h
This article + its brilliant headline are the work of @physicsworld.bsky.social student contributor Chai Gupta, who displays a real knack for using analogies to help get across some tricky concepts in quantum thermodynamics. Go read it! 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/your-beer-...
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Your beer can only cool so fast. Blame quantum mechanics – Physics World
New study places a quantum limit on how fast a system can reach a state of thermal equilibrium
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: Researchers at @citizenlab.ca found ~45 phones belonging to @aljazeera.com infected with zero-click spyware that was distributed via online ads—a “nightmare scenario” that is extremely difficult to defend against. @mattburgess1.bsky.social & @lhn.bsky.social report www.wired.com/story/nightm...
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‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
NEW: Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the Senate's top investor in data center companies, is one of two Democrats leading the push for a permitting deal that would make it easier to build the energy infrastructure the industry needs to expand. readsludge.com/2026/10/14/s...
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Senate’s Top Data Center Investor Backs Environmental Rollbacks to Power the Industry
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse holds millions in data center stocks while helping negotiate a bill that would limit states’ water-quality reviews and restrict court challenges to energy projects.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is truly an article that should be read by all washingtonspectator.org/its-the-powe...
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It’s the Power, Stupid:<br />Dancing in the Dark, Part 4 | Washington Spectator
The enlargement of unchecked presidential power, with impunity and partly for personal profit, is the strategic objective of the Trump Presidency.
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
MS NOW analyzed Trump Justice Department data and found Kash Patel is making false statements about FBI crime stats. The FBI under Patel has brought thousands fewer criminal cases than previous administrations. The findings rebut Patel's claims that he has led a crackdown on violent crime.
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Crime stats touted by Kash Patel are bolstered by arrests made by state and local agencies, not FBI
An analysis of publicly available data from the Justice Department shows repeated claims made by the FBI director are false or misleading.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 13/10/2026
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "Scientists are coming under pressure from some petro-states and major developing countries to delay publication of a key global report on the climate, despite pleas from vulnerable countries worried that postponement could spell disaster for them."
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IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report
AR7 report was scheduled for 2028 in time for Cop33 summit but some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone it
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
oligarchic state control over a social media platform reproduces conditions with known outcomes
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Computer Chronicles Revisited @deviledeggpress.com · 13/10/2026
In 1985, Brøderbund released “Science Toolkit,” a unique combination of hardware and software that enabled students to conduct simple experiments using an Apple II. I published a podcast in 2023 discussing the product’s history. Read the transcript here: www.computerchronicles.blog/transcript-s...
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Transcript — Brøderbund Experiments with Science Toolkit
Editor's note: In August 2023, I published an episode of Chronicles Revisited Podcast on Brøderbund Software and its 1985 product, Science Toolkit. Below is a lightly edited version of my recording sc...
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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Captain America on a sky-cycle flying over the city and talking to himself--or all of us. "TECHNOLOGY'S made tremendous leaps! And yet for every forward STEP mankind takes, it seems to go two steps back! Acid rain, leaking toxic waste, political CORRUPTION and economic chaos....have all contributed to a general DECLINE in the overall STANDARD of LIVING...."
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mcc @dryad.technology · 13/10/2026
What if it is possible to conceive of a positive world and then build it
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Didn't see this when it first came out, but it's spot on. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Opinion | The U. of Michigan Bows to Malicious Misinformation
The president’s capitulation to ignorant criticism is undignified and unwise.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026
"Why did so many millions of people, why did elites and masses both, converge around ideas of grand breaks with the world that was, the ruthless enforcement of a new order and a new man? Because the old world had discredited itself." www.liberalcurrents.com/ideas-matter/
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Editor's Notes: Taking Ideology Seriously
The power of the ideological environment should not be underestimated.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
John Roberts would never let them do this to Daddy's Special Boy.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/10/2026
I left X *because* I had a large following. People told me I was the reason they were staying on there, and I didn’t want to be responsible for 100k+ people sticking around for abuse, CSAM, and Nazis. Simple as that
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
leaving Twitter immediately improved my mental health because my exposure to racism dropped dramatically. I shudder to think how much the minds of the people who mainly stay there are cooked.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026
“you’re contributing to the nazi propaganda website” and “it’s making you worse” are both true for everyone who stays, but it’s hard to convince folks who don’t have a large following themselves that they’re really part of the problem they need to stop getting value out of the platform to leave
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You may have seen a viral picture of actress Mia Goth seemingly referencing her recent divorce filing. It was posted by an Instagram page w/ 1M+ followers and a blue checkmark. It was AI. Here's a story about multiple systems of verification/trust failing: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
“Mia Goth does not have ownership of, nor does she engage in social media on any platform. We have filed multiple complaints with Instagram to remove the verified fan account which continues to post counterfeit, AI images of Mia Goth,” Christine Tripicchio, a representative for Goth, told The Verge in an email. “The fact that this fan account meets Instagram’s criteria to qualify for a ‘blue check’ is disconcerting on a fundamental level. Beyond that, it is incomprehensible that Instagram evidently prioritizes the dissemination of forged and manipulated images over the protection and integrity of a public figure’s likeness.”An AI photo of the actress Mia Goth wearing a shirt that reads "MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN."
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
On the benefits of annotated bibliographies. The lesson in the age of genAI: We have to teach for the students who want to learn. As a friend of mine said about assigning essays: Why would you stop using the best tool we have to teach students just because some of them cheat?
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
forget the prediction markets stuff, THIS is probably the real big insider trading scandal we should be paying attention: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, this is fascism, and they should report and write accordingly. From August 2024: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Trump has been fortunate to face an elite opposition that mostly believes in handing over their lunch money... He is not playing three-dimensional chess so much as just punching people, in the great assurance that they will not punch back." www.vanityfair.com/story/donald...
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How Donald Trump Made Himself Into The Dominant American Of Our Age
The 45th and 47th president has been called consequential, imaginative, influential—sometimes for better, mostly for worse. Ta-Nehisi Coates takes it one beat further in a bid to examine just how pivo...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hard to take AG Paxton’s Medicare fraud cases seriously when he’s in Dubai drinking Medicare fraud wine at a Medicare fraud condo watching fireworks with Medicare fraud fugitives and buying nice Medicare fraud gifts for his mistress.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/10/2026
To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.
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Pete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industry
Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.
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